Pollination of Northern Greening apple trees

Your Northern Greening apple tree is in flowering group 3.
It is self-sterile and needs a pollination partner nearby.
The following varieties will pollinate this apple tree.
(Most crab-apples will also be good pollinators for this variety).

GoldRush is a modern disease-resistant apple, like Golden Delicious but with a better tart/sweet balance. It is also one of the best new hard-cider varieties.More info >Flowering group: 4Self-sterilePicking: Very-Late season

BountifulAn easy-to-grow cooking apple, retains shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker. Unusually for a cooking apple, it is quite modern - introduced by East Malling Research Station in the 1960s.

BraeburnBraeburn was the first of the new wave of bi-colored supermarket apple varieties, and re-established the importance of flavor in commercial apples.

Bright FutureOne of the last varieties developed by English apple breeder Hugh Ermen, introduced in 2008 in conjunction with organic charity Garden Organic.

DeliciousOne of the most famous and important American apple varieties. The original Delicious has a flavor that many find superior to the numerous sports such as Red Delicious that have been developed from it.

DelprimA good quality early-season variety, developed by the Delbard nursery in France, with an interesting pedigree. Deserves to be more widely grown.

Devonshire QuarrendenA very old English apple variety, historically important because of its strawberry-like flavour.

Golden ReinetteA very old variety, popular in 18th and 19th centuries, a pleasant mild dry flavour.

Green BalsamA 19th century variety grown in a small part of the county of North Yorkshire, and known as "the farmer's wife's apple".

Green HarveyAn old green dual-purpose apple with a sweet-sharp flavour. This is probably not related to Harvey or Golden Harvey varieties.

GreensleevesA good garden apple, with a pleasant but unexceptional flavour.

GrenadierIf you want an early-season English cooking apple, this is the one - good flavour for all sorts of culinary uses, very easy to grow, and crops well.

HazenLarge round dark red fruit. Greenish yellow, medium firm, juicy, very sweet flesh; mildly subacid flavor. Pleasant for eating, good dessert and cooking apple. Named after both the nearby town of Hazen, and Dean Arlon Hazen, the Director of the North Dakota Experiment Station.

King of the PippinsA good early/mid-season dual-purpose variety, thought to originate from 18th century France (where it is known as Reine de Reinettes) but widely grown in England since Victorian times.

MeridianAn attractive well-flavoured modern English apple, difficult to detect the Cox parentage though.

OpalA modern apple from the Czech Republic, related to Golden Delicious and Topaz.

Opal (Seabrook)An early-season English apple, with very similar qualities to one of its parents, Worcester Pearmain.

OpalescentA popular large New England apple, sweet, crunchy, juicy, hint of strawberries - a well-flavoured apple.

OrioleAn early-season American apple from the University of Minnesota.

Paula RedOne of the better early season eating apples. Small to medium apple, taste is mild.

Peasgood's NonsuchHighly esteemed culinary apple. Large pale yellow-green fruit, deepening to orange-yellow with short stripes of bright red and some russet patches. Good acid-sweet flavor, cooks to a froth.

RajkaA modern variety from the Czech Republic, bred specifically for disease resistance.

RubinolaA mid-season disease-resistant variety from the Czech Republic, with a very good flavor.

Saint EverardOne of the more unusual Cox-derived apples, Saint Everard is the result of Cox pollinated by a well-regarded old English variety, Margil. As might be expected it has a high quality aromatic flavour. However it suffers from the cultural difficulties of Cox's Orange Pippin and did not achieve commercial success.

Sans PareilAn English apple variety from the Victorian era, or possibly earlier, with a good flavour, deserves to be more widely grown.

SantanaA modern apple from the Netherlands, with a pleasant vinous flavour and bred specifically for reduced levels of proteins which can cause allergic reactions for some people.

SaturnAn excellent modern English apple variety, developed at the famous East Malling research station.

State FairFruit is round, conic, medium sized. Fruit is brilliantly striped with reddish orange over a yellow background. Creamy flesh is firm, juicy aromatic and sweet and firmer than most early varieties. Moderately subacid flavor. Excellent for fresh eating. Keeps well for a summer apple.

Crab apples

It is worth remembering that many (but not all)crab apple trees make excellent pollinators for almost any apple variety. This is because they produce very large quantities of pollen over a long period and are (with some exceptions) only distantly related to mainstream apple varieties so their pollen is highly compatible.

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